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[Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org>]

On 29/06/2014 15:12, Peter Schober wrote:
> * Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org> [2014-06-29 13:04]:
>> We se to be putting a hell of a lot of effort in to creating rules
>> which basically say how metadata can be used on one hand, and then
>> saying it doesn't matter on another. This makes no sense to me.
> Not sure what all those rules about how metadata can be used you keep
> referring to are. I know SWAMID has some, the UKf might. eduGAIN
> doesn't today (i.e., we removed them), ACOnet doesn't have any. Not
> sure about all other federations. So no idea what you're getting at.
I wasn't specifically referring to terms of use attached to metadata (I
agree that is crazy and was even crazier attached to edugain) but the
complex processes that we have created to get metadata in to, or not in
to edugain on the one-hand whilst being completely relaxed about
metadata being used however in another situation. 

However all I wanted to do was observe that the example service being
discussed was one that was using metadata outside of federation rules
and that in turn was impacting the quality of the results its testing
was delivering.  That's it.  I still think that is a valid point.